GalleryThe search for MH370

French gendarmes and police carry a large piece of plane debris which was found on the beach in Saint-Andre, on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion, July 29, 2015.

Reuters: Prisca Bigot

Police officers leave the scene with container holding metallic debris found on a beach in Saint-Denis on the French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean on August 2, 2015, close to where a Boeing 777 wing part believed to belong to missing flight MH370 washed up days before.

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Jiang Hui, whose mother was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, checks the news on his mobile phone before talking to reporters near his home in Beijing, on July 30, 2015.

Reuters: Damir Sagolj

A relative of a passenger aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 writes on a balloon at a remembrance event on the one year anniversary of its disappearance in Kuala Lumpur, March 8, 2015.

Reuters: Olivia Harris

Catherine Gang, whose husband Li Zhi was onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, holds a banner as she walks outside Yonghegong Lama Temple after a gathering of family members of the missing passengers in Beijing March 8, 2015.

Reuters: Kim Kyung-Hoon

A message left on a board of remembrance by Kelly (last name not given), 29, the wife of a passenger aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, at a vigil ahead of the one-year anniversary of its disappearance in Kuala Lumpur, March 6, 2015.

Reuters: Olivia Harris

Relatives of Chinese passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, console each other outside the Malaysia Airlines office in Subang on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur on February 12, 2015

The unmanned Bluefin-21 submarine undergoes pre-deployment checks on the deck of Ocean Shield.

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Phoenix Internaional personnel, Mike Unzicker and Chris Minor, deploy the towed pinger locator off the deck of Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield in the first search for the missing flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, April 5, 2014.

ADF: Leut Kelly Lunt

A navy diver scours the water for debris from Malaysia Airline flight MH370 as he is towed behind the Ocean Shield's quick response boat in the southern Indian Ocean on April 7, 2014.

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Brent Collier, a pilot in a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion, helps with the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean on April 11, 2014.

AAP: Richard Wainwright

A supplied image obtained Friday, March 28, 2014. Executive Officer of HMAS SUCCESS Lieutenant Commander Chris Straughan stands watch on the bridge at sunrise as the ship continues its mission to locate evidence of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

AAP: Department of Defence, ABIS, Julianne Cropley

Australians place messages on a tribute wall for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in Kuala Lumpur on March 30, 2014.

ABC News: Samantha Hawley

A large clump of seaweed passes down the port side of the HMAS Success as it conducts patrols throughout several locations within the search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean on March 28, 2014.

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RAAF Flight Lieutenant Russell Adams looks out from the cockpit of a AP-3C Orion during a search mission for missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 in the Southern Indian Ocean on March 26, 2014.

AFP: Paul Kane

Flight Lieutenant Neville (Smokey) Dawson and Flight Officer Brittany Sharpe Pearce on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion which is searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean on March 21, 2014.

AAP: Richard Wainwright

Grieving Chinese relatives of passengers on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 try to remove a police barricade blocking journalists as they gather to protest outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing on March 25, 2014.

AFP: Mark Ralston

A graffiti artist paints a mural in tribute to the passengers of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on a wall in Kuala Lumpur on March 24, 2014.

AFP: Mohd Rasfan

Family members of passengers aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 protest outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing on March 25, 2014.

Reuters: Kim Kyung-Hoon

A family member of a passenger aboard the Malaysia Airline flight MH370 reacts after hearing news the plane had almost certainly crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, March 25, 2014.

Reuters: Jason Lee

The front page of Malaysia's Star newspaper pays respects to the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 25, 2014.

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The front page of China's Shanghai Daily newspaper reports the news that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has almost certainly crashed, March 25, 2014.

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Relatives of passengers leave a hall in Beijing after hearing news that flight MH370 had almost certainly crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, March 25, 2014.

AFP: Goh Chai Hin

Representatives of the relatives of the passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 make a statement in Beijing on March 25, 2014, after being told the news that the plane plunged into the Indian Ocean.

AFP: Goh Chai Hin

A relative of passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries after hearing the news that the plane plunged into Indian Ocean at a hotel in Beijing. March 24, 2014.

AFP: Goh Chai Hin

Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak (L) prepares to deliver his statement on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 as acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein joins him onstage at the Putra World Trade Center in Kuala Lumpur on March 24, 2014. Mr Najib said the Malaysia Airlines jet came down in the southern Indian Ocean.

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A TV still of a flare marking the spot where an RAAF Orion spotted some debris in the search for MH370 in the Indian Ocean on March 24, 2014. Prime Minister Tony Abbott says two new "objects" were found.

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HMAS Success sweeps the search area in the southern Indian Ocean for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 22, 2014.

ADF: Justin Brown

Planes and ships, including the Navy's HMAS Success, are searching for the missing plane in remote seas off Perth.

AFP: Australian Defence/Julianne Cropley

Royal Australian Air Force officers insert two Self-Locating Data Marker Buoys into the southern Indian Ocean on March 20, 2014.

ADF: Leading Seaman Justin Brown

RAAF flight engineer Neil Scott-Jackson works onboard an AP-3C Orion during the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 over the southern Indian Ocean on March 22, 2014.

Family members of passengers missing on MH370 have called on authorities to "give us back our families".

Reuters: Damir Sagolj

Chinese relatives of passengers onboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 embrace while they await information at the Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 20, 2014.

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Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 wait for news at a hotel in Beijing on March 17, 2014.

AFP: Mark Ralston

Fariq Abdul Hamid was the co-pilot on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

A man leaves a message of support and hope for passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 15, 2014.

Reuters: Damir Sagolj

A pilot on board a Vietnamese Air Force Russian-made AN-27 uses a map to help search Vietnam's southern sea for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 14, 2014.

AFP: Hoang Dinh Nam

Indonesian Air Force pilot aboard an Indonesian Air Force military surveillance aircraft over the Malacca Strait searches for the missing plane on March 13, 2014.

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A sand sculpture in support of the missing Malaysian airliner MH370, by artist Sudersan Pattnaik, sits on a beach at Puri Beach in India on March 12, 2014.

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Photo showing what was originally thought to be possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 floating in the South China Sea, March 12, 2014. Several satellite photos were released on the website of a Chinese state oceanic agency, but were released "by mistake and did not show any debris".

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Photo showing what was originally thought to be possible debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 floating in the South China Sea, March 12, 2014. Several satellite photos were released on the website of a Chinese state oceanic agency, but were released "by mistake and did not show any debris".

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A Vietnamese officer stands next to a screen showing a flight route during a press conference about the search for a missing Malaysian airliner, at Phu Quoc Airport.

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An RAAF crew member in an AP-3C Orion patrol plane looks out a window and scans the surface of the sea west of Peninsula Malaysia during the search for Malysian Airlines flight MH370 on March 11, 2014.

ADF: Cameron Jamieson

A Vietnamese official checks a map during a search flight off Vietnam's coast on March 11, 2014 as part of continued efforts aimed at finding traces of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370.

AFP: Hoang Dinh Nam

Malaysian police photographs showing 19-year-old Iranian Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad (L) and an unidentified man (R), who both boarded missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight using stolen European passports. The images were displayed to the media on March 11, 2014

AFP: Malaysian Police

Personnel from the Republic of Singapore Air Force scan the seas north-east of Kota Baru, Malaysia, for any signs of the missing plane.

AFP: The Strait Times/Desmond Lim

An officer looks out of a helicopter during a mission to find the missing plane.

Reuters: Athit Perawongmetha

Graphic of the flight path for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that last had contact with air traffic controllers on March 8, 2014.

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A Vietnamese Air Force officer looks out a window of a Soviet-made AN-26 during the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane over seas south off Vietnam.

AFP: Hoang Dinh Nam

Journalists wait for a news conference regarding the missing Malaysian Airlines flight at a hotel in Beijing.

Rodney and Mary Burrows were among the six Australians on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

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Queenslanders Catherine and Robert Lawton, pictured on holidays.

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Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on March 8, 2014. An initial extensive search yielded no results until part of a wing washed up on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion in July, 2015. The wreckage was declared to be part flight MH370 on August 5, 2015.